A/RES/54/248 Page 8 5. Requests the Secretary-General to keep under review the introduction and use of any new technology, in particular remote interpretation, and to report thereon to the General Assembly on a regular basis; 6. Requests that efforts continue to be made to improve the quality control of language services at all duty stations; 7. Takes note with appreciation of the note by the Secretary-General entitled “Career development in language services — Measures aimed at reducing excessive vacancy rates at some duty stations: elements of a system of managed assignments”, 12 and requests the Secretary-General to keep the General Assembly informed of developments in this area; 8. Notes with concern that the rate of self-revision exceeded the established benchmark and even tended to increase at all duty stations; 9. Recognizes that an increase in the use of temporary assistance and contractual translation services could increase the need for revision at the senior levels; 10. Notes with concern that some documents issued in Arabic tend to follow a consistent pattern of excessively literal translation, by focusing more on the vocabulary and not on the content of the original language, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that this situation is rectified; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that translation, in principle, reflects the specificity of each language; 12. Also requests the Secretary-General, in order to improve further the quality of translation of documents issued in the six official languages, to ensure continuous dialogue between translation staff and interpretation staff, among United Nations headquarters at New York, Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi, and between translation divisions and Member States with regard to the standardization of the terminology used; 13. Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure that Member States, which are the main users of United Nations documents, are briefed periodically on the terminology used; 14. Decides to keep the matter under review through consultations with Member States concerned; E INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the continuous development, maintenance and enrichment of United Nations web sites,13 12 A/C.5/54/28. 13 A/AC.198/1999/6. /...